Things like this happen and people go oh well, someone has an accident with a gun and the world comes apart. I dont consider someone who is 14 a little boy, unless that kid had some mental defect he knew how dangerous it was playing with a gun. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97943,00.html

Guns that misbehave and kill innocents could be sent to special schools.

With luck, some of these bad guns, could be reformed into good guns. These good guns could then become police guns where police officers would accompany the police guns, when the police guns go out on patrol.

Of course, the bad guns that refuse to change would have to be eventually melted down.

Kids are kids - you seriously expect that all 14 year olds who found a gun would just hand it in, or leave it alone?

It is obviously true that it's not clever to play with guns.......but did the kid deserve to die? People, especially teenagers, do stupid things all the time. The government shouldn't have to protect us from all risks and our own stupidity, but the presence of some objects represents more risk than others.

There aren't many things that are more dangerous to play around with are there?

Although, of course, there are a lot more autos, swimming pools and stairs around, that by definition have to remain in the open (forming potential risk), than there are guns, so a straight comparison seems hardly fair.

And then, of course, there's the fact guns are designed to cause death and injury, whereas the others aren't.

I don't know.....I just can't help feeling that I'd rather leave my kids alone with a staircase for 5 minutes than leave them alone with a loaded gun........what do you think the chances are that one of them will start playing with the staircase and accidentally kill the other one with it?

I am a gun owner, and I believe in the right to keep and bear arms. That being said, I see a need for safe storage laws.

I understand that some people are too stupid to understand the dangers of a childs curiosity. I feel a law would not infringe on the right to keep and bear arms- it may make irresponsible people start thinking about what they are doing.

I don't think that a law that says EVERY gun has to be locked in a gunsafe is a good idea. If I take resonable care to keep my home locked, and some "child" breaks in and steals them, I shouldn't be held accountable. If I have children in my home and leave a loaded pistol laying around- I should be punished.

There are many ways to reduce gun accidents- something I think both sides of the issue truly wish to see. This would in no way infringe on anybody- it just makes sense.

The real tragedy is, the only time the law would be enforced is after a child is injured or killed. I would like to see an education effort included with the law.

Come on, man! I thought the rule was that nobody "pro" guns could ever agree with a suggestion from somebody "anti" guns, and vice versa.

I was just being a little sarcastic - not about your posting, but about the whole stupid situation on here, where people just refuse to agree with common sense purely because somebody from the "other" side said it.

Smart gun owners have believed in safe storage for a long time. There have been gun vaults for years. Both sides of the debate want the same end result- lower criminal gun homocides and accidents. We just disagree on how to go about it.

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